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This book explores how, in the early modern world, Tamil textiles became a globally traded commodity, and in being circulated across the seas and oceans came to be consumed by a wide variety of societies in Asia, Europe, Africa and America. The author elucidates how global diffusion of woven, painted, printed, and dyed cotton textiles occurred mainly because of the skills of Tamil weavers and dyers, and depended in large measure on consumer choices, fashion, ...
This book aims in the first place to examine the tradition of foreign trade in the Bay of Bengal and the social responsibility of businessmen. It explores how overseas trade was organised and the merchant associations functioned in the region. The second objective is to probe into the historical roots of globalisation, the extent to which India (the Bay of Bengal) has been incorporated in the global system and the progress made in the development path with the ...
This groundbreaking collection presents a significantly different portrait of the medieval and modern Indian society, literature, and the nation-state. Reporting on eighteen studies in five distinct sections spanning many centuries of Indian social history it has brought fresh insights into the emergence of innumerable sub-castes owing to various factors such as political, economic, inter-religious and inter-cultural. This remarkable set of reconstructions ...
This volume is a collection of papers that provides rich insights into trade workings of the Indian mind arguing that Indian merchants in the medieval and the early modern period were in no way inferior to other traders and Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen drawing on a wide range of sources. What emerges is a mosaic reflecting rich commercial heritage. Part I includes four studies relating to the ports, maritime trade and ...